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Songs you despise, popular or unpopular

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notsosimpleplanofaction · 16/04/2026 19:39

First one that comes to mind for me is Nightlife by Green Day. 😵‍💫

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Skibunnygal · 24/04/2026 10:31

Don't you want me baby by the Human Leage. Can't stand that song.

AntiqueBabyLoanSmurf · 24/04/2026 11:00

Raahh · 24/04/2026 08:21

If we are he are heading into 'genres' or groups of songs that annoy- I'm going with-

'Songs that are over used in auditions on reality tv music shows, badly sung or just used too often'- in the heyday of X Factor/ Voice etc

This applies to - 'I can't make you love me' by Bonnie Raitt, made popular by George Michael. Love George- the song is terminally dull. Every man and his dog on X Factor thought they could sing it. Dreadful.

'And I'm telling you, I'm not going' from Dream Girls- warbled by Jennifer Hudson wannabes , usually to Jennifer Hudson, on the Voice. With added melisma, and extra shouty bits. And the song doesn't go, anywhere.

Anything, at all, by Whitney Houston.

Toward the end of the X Factor run- anything from The Greatest Showman.
(I never even watched TGM, until about 3 years after it came out- I hated it/ all the songs from it, purely from over-exposure on the radio/ talent shows). It's DD2's favourite filmGrinGrin

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Ooh, talking of the songs that get massively overused, I detest the lazy ubiquity of both the following:

Feature about any group of females of any age = let's play Here Come The Girls by The Sugababes;

Feature about any group of males of any age = let's play The Boys Are Back In Town by Thin Lizzy.

Raahh · 24/04/2026 11:07

AntiqueBabyLoanSmurf · 24/04/2026 11:00

Ooh, talking of the songs that get massively overused, I detest the lazy ubiquity of both the following:

Feature about any group of females of any age = let's play Here Come The Girls by The Sugababes;

Feature about any group of males of any age = let's play The Boys Are Back In Town by Thin Lizzy.

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Yes!

There is just no imagination! Grin.

Hotafternoon · 24/04/2026 11:43

I've just heard Lewis Capaldi on the radio, there is a pneumatic drill going next door.

The drill is preferable.

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